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...stance is a pointed reversal for a city with a history of favoring environmental and residential concerns over those of businesses. Indeed, few expected such a shift from a city council that retained its 5-4 Cambridge Civic Association-backed majority in November...
...KINDS OF CIVIC BETTERMENT have enjoyed wider approval than the regional nonprofit theater movement. But the acclaim has tended to obscure three dirty little secrets. First, many of these institutions have been afflicted with an edifice complex, caring more about glistening facilities than about what goes on inside them. Second, the regional houses have been loath to risk developing new plays and, even more, new musicals. Third, at many of them the acting is mainly mediocre. A seeming example of the first and third shortcomings is the Denver Center Theater. The four-stage complex is as impressive an array...
...helped put the founder's ambitions into practice and stayed on top of the details. He started in 1965 as a trainee and left the company 21 years later as its vice chairman with more than $20 million from the buyout. Since then, Meyerson has invested his time in civic projects. He headed the group that sold the Federal Government on building the controversial $8.4 billion supercollider in Texas. He spearheaded the construction of the new symphony hall in Dallas, which is named after Meyerson because Perot made that a condition for his own $10 million contribution...
...when faced with the AIDS epidemic, pulled together to confront a politically dicey issue. "It was a very methodical process," says Elaine O'Keefe, director of the AIDS division for New Haven's health department. The New Haven workers spoke out about the value of needle exchange at civic meetings, classrooms and churches. Then, after building support from the ground up, they forced the issue into local elections. A special act of the state legislature was required to lift the ban on possession of hypodermics. After lobbying by health workers, the measure passed easily. Their efforts also helped defuse...
...doesn't, but for years the acrimonious debate over how to protect heroin users has impeded efforts by health authorities to control the spread of AIDS. Civic leaders have been caught up in moralistic arguments over whether providing clean needles to addicts would only accelerate inner-city drug abuse. In minority communities, opponents insisted that needle handouts were akin to genocide. Meanwhile, AIDS raced through intravenous-drug-using populations. Today one-third of the nation's AIDS cases originate from IV drug use. More specifically, 71% of all females with AIDS are linked directly or indirectly to IV drug...